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A Pocket Style Manual with Exercises, with 2021 MLA Update

Ninth Edition ©2021 Diana Hacker; Nancy Sommers

Available for the first time with Macmillan's new online learning tool, Achieve, A Pocket Style Manual with Exercises provides practical advice for any level of college writing, plus the practice students need to strengthen their writing skills. Straightforward instruction on grammar, style...
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Writing help at a glance--with extra practice

Available for the first time with Macmillan's new online learning tool, Achieve, A Pocket Style Manual with Exercises provides practical advice for any level of college writing, plus the practice students need to strengthen their writing skills. Straightforward instruction on grammar, style, and punctuation gives students quick answers to their writing questions. Step-by-step guides and a how-to approach to research writing help students form research questions, integrate sources, and more. Coverage of and numerous citation models for four different styles teach students how to cite by example. This new version includes 50 exercises on grammar, style, punctuation, and mechanics. No matter where they are in the writing process--or their college careers--students will find exactly what they need in this easy-to-read, easy-to-navigate handbook.

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  • Straightforward grammar, style, punctuation, and mechanics coverage
  • Guidelines for four major documentation styles--MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE--with 243 citation models, including 2020 APA guidelines
  • How-to research writing instruction, including step-by-step guides and two new sample research papers

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  • “At a glance” pages point students to quick help on everything from prepositions to signal phrases.
  • New guides to research writing, with topics including integrating quotations and detecting false or misleading sources, advise students on working with sources.
  • 55 exercises provide additional practice for style, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.

    • “A Pocket Style Manual is for the student what a multi-function pocket knife is to the survivalist—a compact, versatile, and practical tool. It’s the one textbook a student can rely on for their college career.”
    -Rick Garza, Reedley College


    “This is the most useful handbook I have used in thirty years of teaching. It provides the information students need without overwhelming them. It is easy on the pocketbook as well.”
    -Pam Stone, North Arkansas College

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    Table of Contents

    Clarity
    1 Tighten wordy sentences.
    2 Prefer active verbs.
    3 Balance parallel ideas.
    4 Add needed words.
    5 Eliminate distracting shifts.
    6 Untangle mixed constructions.
    7 Repair misplaced and dangling modifiers.
    8 Provide sentence variety.
    9 Find an appropriate voice.

    Grammar
    10 Make subjects and verbs agree.
    11 Be alert to other problems with verbs.
    12 Use pronouns with care.
    13 Use adjectives and adverbs appropriately.
    14 Repair sentence fragments.
    15 Revise run-on sentences.
    16 Consider grammar topics for multilingual writers.

    Punctuation
    17 The comma
    18 The semicolon and the colon
    19 The apostrophe
    20 Quotation marks
    21 Other punctuation marks
    Mechanics
    22 Capitalization
    23 Abbreviations, numbers, and italics
    24 Hyphenation
    Research
    25 Posing a research question
    26 Finding appropriate sources
    27 Managing information; avoiding plagiarism
    28 Evaluating sources

    MLA Papers
    29 Supporting a thesis
    30 Avoiding plagiarism
    31 Integrating sources
    32 Integrating literary quotations
    33 MLA documentation style
    34 MLA format; sample research paper

    APA Papers
    35 Supporting a thesis
    36 Avoiding plagiarism
    37 Integrating sources
    38 APA documentation style
    39 APA format; sample research paper

    Chicago Papers
    40 Supporting a thesis
    41 Avoiding plagiarism
    42 Integrating sources
    43 Chicago documentation style
    44 Chicago format; sample pages

    CSE Papers
    45 CSE documentation style
    46 CSE format

    Exercises

    Diana Hacker

    Diana Hacker personally class-tested her handbooks with nearly four thousand students over thirty-five years at Prince George’s Community College in Maryland, where she was a member of the English faculty. Hacker handbooks, built on innovation and on a keen understanding of the challenges facing student writers, are the most widely adopted in America. Hacker handbooks, all published by Bedford/St. Martin’s, include A Writer’s Reference, Ninth Edition (2018); A Pocket Style Manual, Eighth Edition (2018); The Bedford Handbook, Tenth Edition (2017); Rules for Writers, Eighth Edition (2016); and Writer’s Help 2.0, Hacker Version.

    Nancy Sommers

    Nancy Sommers, who has taught composition and directed composition programs for thirty years, now teaches in Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. She led Harvard’s Expository Writing Program for twenty years, directing the first-year writing program and establishing Harvard’s WAC program. A two-time Braddock Award winner, Sommers is well known for her research and publications on student writing. Her articles “Revision Strategies of Student and Experienced Writers” and “Responding to Student Writing” are two of the most widely read and anthologized articles in the field of composition. Recently she has been exploring different audiences through blogging and through publishing in popular media. Sommers is the lead author on Hacker handbooks, all published by Bedford/St. Martin’s, and is coauthor of Fields of Reading, Tenth Edition (2013).

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